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MARTIN V. KACER AND HARRY G. YOOUM, OF ST. LOUIS, MISSOURI.

SPECIFICATION fO-rrningpart of Letters Patent No. 268,685, dated December 5, 1882,

Application filed February 11, 1882. (No model.)

To all whom it may concern:

Be it known that we, MARTIN V. KAGER and HARRY O. YOOUM, both of the city of St. Louis, in the State of Missouri, have invented a certain new and useful Improvement in Machines for Making Bottle-Wrappers, of which the follo wing is a full, clear, and exact description, reference being bad to the accompanying drawings, forming part of this specification.

Our invention relates to a machine for cutting bottle-wrappers from a log of wood; and

our invention consists in the hereinafter-de scribed points of novelty.

In the drawings, Figure 1 is an end elevation. Fig. 2 is an enlarged end view of the roller carrying the knife for cuttingthe tongues Fig. 3 is a side elevation of same; and Fig. 4 is an end view of same, showing part of the log from which the wrappers are cut. Fig. 5 is a detail side view of this knife. Fig. 6 is a section of part of the wrapper. Fig. 7 is a side view of same. Fig. 8 is a detail perspective view of the corrugated knife for cutting the wrappers from the log; and Fig. 9 is an end view of same, showing it secured to the block to which it is held and'fed up to thelog. Fig. 10is a top view illustrating the manner of adjusting the roller carrying the knife to or from the log, as hereinafterdescribed. Fig. 11 is a top view of the machine in outline.

A represents the leg from which the wrappers are cut. This has spiked or otherwise secured to each end gudgeons a, which have journal-bearing in suitable boxes on the supporting-frame B. i

G is a block which slides upon the frame B, and which has secured to it by bolt or bolts cl a knife, D. This knife has a corrugated cut ting-edge, (see Fig. 8,) which takes a thin strip of veneer from the log as it revolves toward it. The bolts d pass through slots d in the knife, which allows the knife to be slightly adjusted up or down by a set screw or screws, 01, which screw up through the block against the lower edge of the knife. The block (J has screwthreaded holes to receive screw-threaded rods E E, by which the knife is fed up to the log, so that a veneer of a uniform thickness-is obtained.

We will now describe the device for cutting the necks of the wrappers, wherein our invention principally lies.

F is a roller, of the same length as the log A. It has journal-bearing in sliding boxesG Gr, resting upon the frame B, and having screwthreaded holes receiving the other screwthreaded ends of the rods E. The rods have right and left threads. Thus it will be seen that when the rods E are turned the distance the roller moves toward the log will be exactly the same as that of the block 0. As it may, however, he sometimes necessary to adj ust the roller F by itself, the boxes G are made in two pieces each, (see Fig. 1,) the feed-rods passing through the lower pieces, and the roller being journaled in the upper pieces. are secured together by bolts 9 passing up through holes in the lower pieces and through slots 9 in the upper pieces. It is preferred, though not necessary, to have adjusting-bolts g screwing through lugs g of the lower portion of the box and jamming the upper portion of the box between their inner ends. The roller F is corrugated, the ribs entering the grooves of. the corrugated log. The log is of sufficient length to make two wrappers. On the center of the roller F is a corrugated serpentinely-arranged knife, H, as shown in Fig. 3, to cut into the log to form the tongues h of the wrappers. enter the grooves of the corrugated log, and the salient parts or ribs of the log enter the grooves of the knife, and thus the knife cuts into the log the same distance in the grooves as on the ribs, and the depth the knife cuts into the log each time is of course equal to the thickness of the wrapper cut off by the knife D, as they are both fed up to the log together.

is a corrugated knife extending from one end of the "roller to the knife H, and l is a similar knife extending from the other end of the roller to the knife H, their object being to cut the log to separate the wrappers. There may be more than one set of the knives I 1', according to the size of the roller. It will thus be seen that as the knife D cuts the veneer from the log it will be in the form of wrappers, without further work being done and without waste of material. We have said that the log The two pieces The salient parts of the knife Q cases would be of sufficient length to make two wrappers; but, as a matter of course, the log: may belong enough for any given number of wrappers, when additional knives H Would be added to the rollerF. The knives H are simply driven into grooves in the roller made to receive them.

We claim as our invention- 1. In a machine for making bottle-wrappers, the combination of corrugated knife D and roller F, provided with corrugated knife H and separating-knivesl I, substantially as and for the purpose set forth.

2. The corrugated serpentinelyarranged knife H and wrapper-separating knives I I, 15 in combination with roller F and a suitable knife, D, as set forth.

3. The roller F and boxes G G, in combination with knife-blocks O, the upper halves of the boxes being independently adjustable on 20 the lower halves, and the boxes and blocks adjustable away from and toward each other, as

set forth.

MARTIN V. KAOER. HARRY O; YOOUM. Witnesses:

SAML. KNIGHT, GEO. H. KNIGHT. 

